Beachfront by DecadeDecaf
Beachfront is a sandbox game where you take care of mischievous alien critters as they soak up the sun, dig for buried treasure, and asexually reproduce.

All code, art, music, sound, etc. was made by one person in less than 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 56 compo. The theme was "tiny creatures." I hope you have fun with my game!
PLEASE NOTE: a game-breaking crash was patched out after the deadline. Check the source code for transparency.
| html5 | https://decadedecaf.itch.io/beachfront |
| source code | https://github.com/DecadeDecaf/beachfront |
| soundtrack | https://decadedecaf.bandcamp.com/track/beachfront |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/beachfront |
Ratings
| Overall | 34th | 4.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 69th | 3.783⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 121th | 3.565⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 192th | 3.478⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 10th | 4.5⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 3th | 4.37⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 4th | 4.432⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 29th | 4.114⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 19🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
I like that the sound where an alien is drinking seawater can be heard from offscreen, because seawater is bad for them. It's a cue for me to go check the beach and drag anyone drinking seawater away... You know that meme where a mom is holding her two kids back with leashes? That's what I feel like when I see Xindle grab a straw. Wasn't fast enough to save them though, RIP.
This is an amazing game and I like it. More ways to interact with the aliens (like giving them headpats) would be nice, but doing this much for a compo is already a lot. Well played!


...oh my GOD
Thank you so much for the comment. Your crude prose is KILLING me here; it made my entire day.
@ramchops-games I know exactly what you're talking about lmao. There were so many cool things I wanted to include but I quickly learned that this genre is not very compo-friendly. Headpats would've been perfect. Thank you!
Love how you gave them names too!
Ran into a (possible) bug where one of the treasure spots showed up at the shoreline (half under the waves), and I couldn't get the aliens to dig there.

Was amusing when the reproduction rate kinda skyrocketed... guys, can you stop getting pregnant for a bit, please?
I loved this. Music and their voices while being dragged were fantastic. Was a lot of fun to take care of them. Once I bought the last upgrade, I wished I'd had more to do / some reason to stick around for a bit more.